Prijono (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prijono (1907 - 1969) was an Indonesian politician and academic. Prijono was a leading figure of the Murba Party and the Indonesian Peace Committee. Prijono served as Minister of Education and Culture between 1957 and 1966. He was one of the intellectual ideologues who surrounded President Sukarno. In December 1954 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. In October 1960 Prijono introduced the principle of Pancawardhana ('five principles of development') in the primary and secondary education system. During his government tenure, Prijono established various cultural institutions with the objective to promote new national and revolutionary culture. These institutions taught new worker-peasant folk dances and revolutionary songs. On March 16, 1966 Prijono was kidnapped by activists of the Islamic students movement KAPPI and Laskar militia. He was brought to the headquarters of KOSTRAD.